Pardis Dabashi was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the department of literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, a women’s liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. Dr. Dabashi is a scholar of comparative modernist aesthetics and disciplinary history, with emphasis on narrative form and critical epistemology in the Euro-American, Iranian, and classical Islamic contexts.
Dr. Dabashi holds a bachelor’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in New York City and a Ph.D. in English from Boston University.
Haley Duschinski is the senior advisor for global affairs at Ohio University, where she has taught for more than two decades. In addition to her new role, Dr. Duschinski, a professor of anthropology, will continue to serve as director of the Center for the International Studies and director of the School of International Studies and Languages. Her scholarship centers on legal and political anthropology.
Dr. Duschinski is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in anthropology. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University.
Rachel Roberts was named the inaugural associate dean of strategy and operations for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Dr. Roberts comes to her new role from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she served as an associate professor of music leadership, the Hamlin Family Director of the Institute for Music Leadership in Honor of James Doser, and director of the school’s strategic initiatives. Earlier, she was the founding director of the entrepreneurial musicianship department at New England Conservatory.
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Dr. Roberts earned her master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and her doctorate in higher education leadership from the University of Rochester.
Cynthia Carnes was appointed vice president for research and innovation at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carnes has spent the past three decades on the faculty at Ohio State University. A professor of pharmaceutics and pharmacology, she most recently served as senior associate vice president for research operations at Ohio State’s Enterprise for Research, Innovation, and Knowledge. Her research spans pharmacology, medicine, and veterinary science.
Dr. Carnes is a graduate of the University of Texas, where she majored in pharmacy. She earned her doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Utah and her Ph.D. in pharmacy and veterinary clinical sciences from Ohio State University.
Liz Legerski is the new director of faculty development at the University of North Dakota. A member of the faculty since 2010, Dr. Legerski was recently promoted to full professor of sociology. She currently serves as graduate director for the department of sociology. Her academic interests include gender, inequality, family, social policy, sexual harassment, and interpersonal violence.
Dr. Legerski received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Kansas.